Monday, February 25, 2013

Hacking: your pad or mine?

The folks at security tools company Pwnie Express
have built a tablet that can bash the heck out of corporate networks.
Called the Pwn Pad, it’s a full-fledged hacking toolkit built atop
Google’s Android operating system.

Pwnie Express will be selling the cool-looking hack machines — based
on Google’s Nexus 7 tablets — for $795. They’ll be introduced at the RSA
security conference in San Francisco next week, but Pwnie Express is
also releasing the Pwn Pad source code, meaning that hackers can
download the software and get it up and running on other types of
Android phones and tablets.

Some important hacking tools have already been ported to Android, but
Pwnie Express says that they’ve added some new ones. Most importantly,
this is the first time that they’ve been able to get popular wireless
hacking tools like Aircrack-ng and Kismet to work on an Android device.

“Every pen tester we know has a phone and a tablet and a laptop, but
none of them has been able to do pen-testing from the tablet,” says Dave
Porcello, Pwnie Express’s CEO.

Looks pretty cool, actually:

At that price point, there's really no excuse for companies not to be using it to test the security of their own systems. It might be really interesting if you scripted things, so that the security guard could just carry one around on his patrols. If the pad found any internal problems, it could email the security team.